Friday, December 4, 2009

PBS Special Water Edition IonWays Alkaline Ionized Water



PBS Special Water Edition Alkaline Water Part 1



PBS Special Water Edition Alkaline Water Part 2



PBS Special Water Edition Alkaline Water Part 3



PBS Special Water Edition Alkaline Water Part 4


For more information about how you can benefit from drinking IonWays alkaline water or the business opportunity, please visit www.AlkalineBuzz.com or for immediate assistance call 760-930-9604

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Start Your Own Water Store With IonWays NEW Business Builder Pack

Dear Friends,

If you have been looking for an enviormentaly green business,
then look now further.

Please listen to this informative video about how people are
setting up water stores that are profitable from the very start.


Ionways is pleased to announce our new, exciting and truly innovative business building program.

Associates now have the opportunity to turbo-charge their Ionways business by purchasing the new
Business Builder Pak.

The Business Builder Pak, available to Ionways Associates only, includes:

  • Master Carton of 3 Water Ionizers (Athena or Delphi)
  • 1 pack (25 each) of Vitalize brochures
  • 1 pack (25 each) of Ionize brochures
  • 1 pack (25 each) of Maximize brochures
  • 10 Dr. Ben Johnson "The Secret is Out" DVDs
  • 10 "Discover Living, Energized Water" DVDs

Athena Business Builder Pak: $5,285
Delphi Business Builder Pak: $6,485

Through Peavine Financial Group, the IonWays Business Builder Pak can be obtained on a Line of Credit with zero down and as little as $200 per month, for credit scores starting at 630.

For more information, please call (760) 930-9604

This program is the perfect way to turbo-charge your IonWays business and just in time to prepare to start the new year off right!


Sunday, October 11, 2009

Kangen Enagic Exposed

ONE More Reason NOT to Buy A
Kangen Enagic
LevelLuk 501

As per Kangen's operational manual
Warning: Make sure that sufficient ventilation is provided to let out harmful gases that result from Strong Acidic Water. In the worst possible case, your life would be at risk if the gases filling your room has no way out.



ONE More Reason to BUY An
IonWays Athena Water Ionizer


Only $2195.00


Call (760) 930-9604

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Price Increase on ALL IonWays Water Ionizers




Dear Friends,

If you have been thinking about buying one of our state of the art water ionizers please be advised that we will be undergoing a price increase as of October 16th.

So, if you been waiting or on the fence, now is the time to buy and save youself some money.

Due to a price increase from our manufacturer, the following will go into effect on October 16th 2009:

Athena: $2195.00
Delphi: $2695.00
Isis: $1495.00
BioStone Plus: $79.00

Shop now: Click Here


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Become An IonWays Dealer And Start Your Own Business

http://www.alkalinebuzz.com Become an IonWays dealer and make money at home without having to sponsor 100's of people into your business. Make money fast by sponsoring only a few key business builders.



Tuesday, September 29, 2009

IonWays - Home Based Freedom Business

http://www.alkalinebuzz.com We are going to show you how to create un-paralleled freedom in life by being part of a massive explosion in the trillion dollar wellness industry coupled with the billion dollar water industry.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Kangen Enagic Distributor Exposed

http://www.alkalinebuzz.com Ex-Kangen Enagic distributor Mike Hanley teams up with Greg Clowminzer to help educate people about making the switch from Kangen Enagic to IonWays superior water ionizers for half the price.

Monday, August 31, 2009

IonWays New Extended Lifetime Warranty!

IonWays is very pleased to announce a new extended lifetime warranty on the Athena, Delphi and Isis water ionizers sold on or after August 27th, 2009.

The warranty on Emco Tech ionizers begins on the purchase date. The IonWays Lifetime warranty covers the original purchaser for life on all parts (bumper to bumper) and 100% of labor costs in the first five (5) years. After the first five (5) years, the purchaser is responsible for any labor costs (billed at $60/hr.) to a maximum of $199 per occurrence. Average repair time is less than one hour. IonWays will cover all shipping costs for 1 year, and then return shipping for up to 5 years from date of purchase. After that the purchaser is responsible for all shipping. Items that have not been assigned an RMA number will not be accepted.

Thanks to all of you who are so dedicated in helping to share this extraordinary water with those around us.

If you have any questions, please use the Contact Admin tool in your IonWays eOffice.

Thank you,

Your Friends at IonWays

Watch This Trailer From The Movie Tapped

Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.


To learn more about the film "Tapped" please visit www.tappedthemovie.com

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

IonWays - Special PBS TV Broadcast

Dear Friends,

We are very excited about the Special PBS TV Broadcast airing Friday, August 21st and Sunday, August 23rd on the PBS TV station KOCE in the Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and parts of San Diego and Ventura Counties.

Thank you all so much for the great response and positive feedback regarding this broadcast, especially the inquiries regarding when and where this PBS special will be broadcast in other parts of the country.

To understand how the show on ionized water and IonWays will be aired you must understand how PBS works. PBS is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 local member stations. However, PBS is not responsible for all programming carried on local stations. In fact, stations usually receive a large portion of their content from third-party sources, such as American Public Television, NETA, and independent producers. This distinction is a frequent source of viewer confusion. Very little content shows nationwide on all PBS member stations. Rather it typically airs first in the local market in which it was produced and then is "picked up" and aired by other member stations. Many of this producer's shows are "picked up" by a large portion of PBS affiliates. His primary show has been The American Health Journal. He has won numerous awards and is confident this will show in other markets over the next few months. We will make further announcements as the information becomes available. Additionally, at some point in the future, the show will be available for purchase from your IonWays website.

Thank you again for all of your positive feedback and interest in this IonWays Special PBS TV Broadcast!


Make your plans to join IonWays for a special PBS TV broadcast!

When:
Friday, August 21st at 1:30 PM

-and-

Sunday, August 23rd at 10:30 AM


Where:
The PBS TV station KOCE.

The
broadcast area is Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and parts of San Diego and Ventura Counties.

You do not want to miss out on this opportunity!

Make your plans to join us!

For more information: Contact Greg Clowminzer at 760-30-9604

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

How Does An Alkaline Water Ionizer Work?




The functions of a Alkaline Water Ionizer, although involving advanced computer technology and circuitry, is actually quite easy to explain. It can most simply be described as a two-stage operation.

Stage One: Filtering
It’s an accepted fact that our tap water, filled with industrial waste and discarded pharmaceuticals, requires intense filtering for optimum health. It’s also a fact that many people aren’t even aware of exactly what different types of water filters can and can’t remove. So, the first part of any good water treatment involves the filtering of the incoming water supply.

The first thing a water ionizer does to your input tap water is filter it using a combination of bacteriological and particulate control incorporating silver-activated charcoal, the most accepted and proven method on the market. Your water passes through an ultra-fine Biostone Filter which removes the following:
  • Bacteria
  • Inorganic Chemicals
  • Lead
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Particulate
  • Pesticides
  • Trihalomethanes
  • Volatile Organic chemicals
  • Detergents
  • Asbestos
  • Viruses
  • Pollens
What it DOESN’T filter out is soluble minerals. This means that the ionizer, unlike distillers or reverse osmosis devices, will leave in all of the healthy minerals your body requires to function properly. This is the way we’ve always had our water, all the way back to the point when we emerged from the sea.

So after the water filter has done its job, you now have clean mineralized water ready for ionizing. Minerals that cannot dissolve in water, do not get through the Biostone water filter.

About The Incoming Water
There are many devices that claim the above qualities, and to the beginner’s eyes they might all seem similar. Some use magnets, some magnetic rock, some ceramics.

However there is a very clear way to demonstrate the effectiveness of the water ionizers. For this we use the two measurements of pH (acid/alkaline) and Oxidation/Reduction Potential.

When your tap water arrives at your home, it will usually be a little over neutral in pH ~ around 7.5.

It will, however, be robbed of its electrical negative charge and will almost always have a ‘positive’ ORP . This means it has no antioxidant abilities and cannot assist your body in the fight against oxygen free radicals. On the contrary, it actually robs you of energy as you drink it.

The measurement of this positive or negative charge is expressed in millivolts, so an ORP reading on our ORP meter of tap water will most likely show around +350 millivolts. After it has been through Ionizing Water filters it will most likely show anything from -150 to -650mv (depending on the amount of soluble minerals in the water and on the original pH of the water).

Here’s where it gets a little tricky. Some device vendors claim antioxidant effect because their water units reduce the positive charge (+350mv). What they don’t tell you is that they don’t reduce it enough to turn it negative. ONLY when your water shows a negative ORP (less than zero) is it antioxidant capable. Claims to the contrary are like saying “Well, your car is still muddy, but look how well we partially cleaned it!”

It’s a similar situation with alkalinity. As we already mentioned, your water is already arriving at your sink with a mild alkalinity. That’s because local authorities ‘doctor’ it with lime to keep it the alkaline side of acid, for two reasons;

  • They are bound by law to do so
  • Acid (less than pH 7) water is a willing host for microorganisms, bacteria and viruses.
Scientists at Shiga university in Japan have conducted long term research into optimum alkalinity of drinking water for health, and have determined it to be from pH 8 to 9.5. Our own research has confirmed that no other devices we know of are capable of delivering a precise pH with a range all the way from neutral up to pH 10. If you are considering other devices please keep these two important facts in mind.

  • You need a negative charge in your drinking water for it to be at all antioxidant.
  • You need the ability to adjust pH for each individual user or family member.
The success of Ionizing water filters worldwide is due primarily to the marriage of technology and age-old water principles in the form of computerized individual pH and ORP capabilities. The precision of this onboard computerized measurement cannot be duplicated in systems without electricity, no matter what they say.

Stage Two: Ionizing
Your water now enters the ionization chamber. Here it has a very specific low voltage electric current passed through it, which causes the soluble minerals in it to be attracted to either a positive ‘pole’ or a negative ‘pole’ depending on their own valiancy, or electrical energy signature. When this happens, the water separates into alkaline and acid streams. We drink the alkaline water and we use the acid water externally, for skin, healing, plants and disinfecting.

This function is under the watchful eye of the ‘brains’ of the water ionizer, a solid state onboard computer (MICOM) that determines the exact voltage for each user, chosen by a simple press of a button.

The real beauty of this process is the fact that the minerals in the water that flow out with the alkaline water are all beneficial, while the minerals that flow out with the acid water are, in the main, not. Thus, you drink purified, beneficially mineralized alkaline water. Minerals and mineral compounds such as fluoride, flow out in the acid water.

At the same time, the alkaline water undergoes a profound change. From ordinary H20 it becomes OH- . This means it becomes a powerful antioxidant formula at an atomic level. It also means that it changes the way its molecules group together. Instead of ‘clumping’ in large groups of 12 molecules, it gathers in much smaller (around half the size) groups. This is why people refer to the experience of drinking from water ionizers as effortless, or ’silken’.

This change of molecular form also means, according to Dr. Hayashi, of the Japanese Water Institute, that it gains the ability to penetrate tissue and cell walls far more easily. This is why many people experience detoxification effects in the first few weeks of drinking the water, as it infiltrates areas that have not been reachable with ordinary H2O. This is what is called ‘Microclustered‘ water.

If in doubt, ask for a test of your water ionizer. This will demonstrate to you whether you are getting what you pay for.

Remember, it’s not about how good your water filter is or how long it will last. It’s about how long YOU want to last and how good YOUR life will be!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Tolerations - The Hidden Costs Of Being In Business


Tolerations are those things that you put up with every day that distract you from other important things. Sometimes the underlying source of continued tolerations is to avoid taking full responsibility for particular circumstances in your life, but eventually you will recognize that this is in large part what is holding you back from achieving your goals. In handling the things you are tolerating, you free up time and energy to devote to a higher quality of life. http://www.zencoach.com 

Monday, June 1, 2009

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Learn How To Add 95 People To You IonWays Business In 90 Days

Dear IonWays Associates,

Frankly, I haven't heard of to many people in network marketing ever signing up 95 people in less than 3 days. But no joke... my friend pulled it off less than 3 months ago for the launch of the last company he joined. It was total, all out chaos for 3 days. He had his phones ringing OFF the hook. Credit cards were being written down like you wouldn't believe... Literally, people were just getting plugged in left and right. It was a CRAZY 3 days for him, and since... his group has grown to over 2,000 people my first 5 months in this company.  

The crazy part is... I'm sharing with you exactly how he did it.  

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I've created a large part of my success from simply FOLLOWING what other people were doing that was WORKING. When I saw something worked, I dug my feet in and started doing the same thing myself. Again... here is how to copy my friends exact strategies...


I highly suggest you learn from people who have pulled off incredible feats
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Fake Water Ionizer Comparison Sites - Beware!


MANIPULATING TEST RESULTS – WHILE APPEARING LEGIT!



There is some tricky business going on today on the internet. Testing ionizer performance can easily be manipulated, even if they go to great lengths to tell you how they are not. There are basically three ways to manipulate test results: 1) control the performance variables, 2) Doctor the test vessels, 3) play tricks with the camera. BUYER BEWARE of performance tests which carry no certification. You should only trust test results obtained by a third party credible source that is willing to certify the test results.Let’s look at each of the ways tests can appear to be legitimate but are dishonest and manipulated:

Testing where you cannot see the voltage settings on the ionizers: This would be the easiest trick they can play. The scenario is easy: the person performing the test tells you the ionizer is on the highest setting, but the camera does not bother to zoom in on the control panel of the ionizer so you can see it. As you view a performance video pay attention to:

· The close up shots of the control panel of each ionizer.

· Look to ensure the highest setting is selected and that you can actually see this.

Manipulating Flow Rates: You can always achieve higher pH and ORP readings with reduced flow rates. Simply put, speed up flow rate, you get less performance; slow it down and you’ll get more performance. As you view a performance video pay attention to:

· The individual flow rates on each ionizer – can you see them individually and close up?

· Are all the ionizers running at the same time? If so be suspicious – it would be easy to control flow using an in-line valve. You could slow flow to one ionizer to increase results and speed up flow on another ionizer to decrease results.


Additives: Some units have mineral ports. Additives can be introduced to increase or decrease performance.

· White vinegar can be added to the port of an ionizer to decrease performance

· Mineral additives can be introduced to increase performance

· Again, who did the test? Are they credible?

In the end ask who was controlling the settings? A technician from an Independent EPA Certified Analytical Lab would certainly be the most trustworthy.


DOCTORING TEST VESSELS – Even if they state that the test vessels are brand new. Here a few ways in which they can appear brand new but completely skew results:

· Ammonia or bleach – both liquids are extremely powerful alkaline substances. Both also happen to be clear liquids. Here is a simple an powerful way in which to alter results: Take what appears to be a new cup, swirl some bleach or ammonia in it. Pour it out. Allow to dry. Now your vessel appears brand new – but will powerfully alter the results. Add water and you will have a high pH result.

· White vinegar or muriatic acid – both liquids are extremely powerful acidic substances. Both are also clear liquids. Test results can be doctored to lower results using the same method but substituting an acidic. Add water and you will have a lower pH result.


PLAYING TRICKS WITH THE CAMERA OR NARRATIVE– this form of manipulation is easiest to understand. Through editing you can start or stop a film easily creating results that are falsified. Magic can fool your naked eye; imagine what type of magic can be crafted using a camera! Through deft narrative you can be hypnotized into thinking that a test appears to be performed honestly. This is also the easiest to remove doubt from. Believe only facts that can be certified. As you view a performance video ask:

· Who is making the rating or video? Who actually performed the tests?

· Is the person testing (and standing behind the results) credible? Can they be believed?

· Would you prefer to believe a technician from an Independent EPA Certified Analytical Lab would certainly be the most trustworthy.


Lastly lets look at the motivation. Most of the current comparison sites have top ranking in the “Sponsored Links” section on GoogleTM. Why on earth would an objective review site pay GoogleTM to get to the top billing in the search engine rankings? Could it be they stand to profit? The only criteria they offer you are their homegrown video “performance tests” which attempt to appear unbiased and objective. Again, ask the salient questions. In the end you will find it is a slick, yet essentially dishonest approach to offering a comparison. It is designed to direct you to their specific brand, which of course they rank the highest. Additionally, they focus only on pH and ORP and leave out some other crucial performance considerations. In short, when you look past a clean-cut image and a smooth articulate delivery, where are the facts that you can trust?

WHAT YOU SHOULD BELIEVE – It is especially important when considering performance testing that you trust only facts. There are more and more “comparisons” showing up on the Internet lately; how can you know which to believe? The following criteria will help you distinguish what is truly factual from that which appears to be, but in reality is not.


QUESTIONS TO ASK TO DETERMINE A GOOD TEST

Is the Test Independent, Third Party? You will want to know the party performing the test has no motivation for a specific outcome. Ideally a test would be performed by a company with absolutely no business ties to any brand. There are tests on the Internet that appear to be objective but in reality are not. In a few short minutes of internet searching, we found an interesting website depicting the ties of one comparison site to a specific brand. A good litmus test to apply is does the entity performing the test make income from the sale of ionizers? Can you verify this?

Is the Test Scientific? Look for good solid scientific testing using:

o Top quality instruments. Measuring pH is relatively common (example: pool and fish tank maintenance) and the equipment to do it is fairly accurate and readily available. Measuring ORP is another story entirely. ORP is expressed in millivolts (1/1000 of a single volt) and measures extremely slight, and highly variable differences in the electrical properties of water. Instruments that measure ORP range in price from $100 for a handheld “tester” to over $3,000 for more sophisticated laboratory equipment. Look for the more sophisticated and expensive laboratory equipment.

o Solid lab protocols and flawless execution. There are many factors which can be manipulated easily in a video. You will want verify that all possible variables that could affect the outcome of testing were strictly controlled such as settings, flow rates, age of the ionizer

Are the Results Certified? You want to see results certified by a credible authority, which will stand behind the fact that it is an Independent Third Party that has employed proper scientific protocols. The litmus test here is easy: would the certifying party have anything to lose if they were caught falsifying certified results? An analytical lab with an EPA certification on the line would be a good bet to provide facts that are verifiable and trustworthy. A guy standing in a kitchen would not.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Fish in U.S. Rivers Tainted With Common Medications

Study is part of government strategy to tackle issue

(HealthDay News) -- Fish from five U.S. rivers were found to be tainted with traces of medications and common chemicals, according to a new study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Baylor University.

The common antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl), an anticonvulsant and two types of antidepressants were among the seven types of pharmaceuticals found in the tissue and livers of fish from waterways in or near Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Orlando, Fla. Each river is considered "effluent-dominated," because they receive large amounts of wastewater discharge from nearby sewage treatment plants.

While federal standards exist for treated wastewater, they do not address pharmaceuticals or most personal care products, and little is known about the effects they have on the environment and wildlife. This study is part of a federal strategy to address the issue.

Previous research has concluded that behavior vital for fish survival, such as mating and fighting, can be affected if too much antidepressant residue collects in their systems.

While other studies have found pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wild river fish, this is the first time multiple compounds have been found in fish from several different locations, co-lead investigator Bryan Brooks, an associate professor of environmental sciences at Baylor, said in a news release issued by the Texas-based university.

The medications and chemicals found from among the 36 tested for were, aside from diphenhydramine:
the cholesterol drug gemfibrozil (Lopid), which researchers say had never before been found in wild fish;
diltiazem (Cardizem), a medication that helps control high blood pressure;
carbamazepine (Tegretol), a drug used for epilepsy and bipolar disorder;
norfluoxetine, an active ingredient in the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac);
the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft);
galaxolide and tonalide, common odor-enhancing ingredients in soap and other hygiene products.


Galaxolide and tonalide were found in the highest concentrations in the fish tissue, while the others were more concentrated in the liver, which processes foreign substances that enter the body.

The study was presented Wednesday at the American Chemical Society annual meeting in Salt Lake City, while the results also are to be published in a special online edition of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Monday, April 20, 2009

People Turn to “Network Marketing” in Soft Economy



People turn to “network marketing” in soft economy
By CHRIS POLLONE
Reporter
Published: February 17, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala—While her husband was searching for full time work, Jennifer Grissom of Birmingham decided to make a little money on the side on top of her full-time job.

“I had to find some way to get an extra line of income that worked in the hours I had available to me,” she said.

Since November, Jennifer’s been selling skin care products for Arbonne International.

The company relies on a network of sales consultants who recruit other people to sell the product as well.

The more people a sales consultant recruits, the bigger her potential earnings are.

It might sound like a pyramid scheme to some, but marketing experts say it’s not.

“These are legitimate businesses, though you want to make sure you’re working for a good business, always,” Dr. Betsy Holloway of Samford University’s Brock School of Business said.

It’s called “network marketing” or “multi-level marketing” (MLM) and it’s been around for decades.

Watch Video: http://www.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/people_turn_to_network_marketing_in_soft_economy/59952/

For information about the IonWays business opportunity please contact:

Greg & Monika; Clowminzer
Independent IonWays Dealers
http://www.AlkalineBuzz.com
Greg@AlkalineBuzz.com
760-930-9604 / 760-481-5003

AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water


By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writers - Mon Apr 20, 1:45 AM PDT
- U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.

In this photo taken on Feb. 26, 2009, aeration basins are seen in operation at the Wilmington Wastewater Treatment Plant in Wilmington, Del. Scientists took samples from the Delaware River nearby and found elevated concentrations of the painkiller codeine that are prompting them to try and track the source of the drug; this treatment plant handles sewage from a nearby pharmaceutical factory that makes codeine. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.

Federal and industry officials say they don't know the extent to which pharmaceuticals are released by U.S. manufacturers because no one tracks them — as drugs. But a close analysis of 20 years of federal records found that, in fact, the government unintentionally keeps data on a few, allowing a glimpse of the pharmaceuticals coming from factories.

As part of its ongoing PharmaWater investigation about trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking water, AP identified 22 compounds that show up on two lists: the EPA monitors them as industrial chemicals that are released into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water under federal pollution laws, while the Food and Drug Administration classifies them as active pharmaceutical ingredients.

The data don't show precisely how much of the 271 million pounds comes from drugmakers versus other manufacturers; also, the figure is a massive undercount because of the limited federal government tracking.

To date, drugmakers have dismissed the suggestion that their manufacturing contributes significantly to what's being found in water. Federal drug and water regulators agree.

But some researchers say the lack of required testing amounts to a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy about whether drugmakers are contributing to water pollution.

"It doesn't pass the straight-face test to say pharmaceutical manufacturers are not emitting any of the compounds they're creating," said Kyla Bennett, who spent 10 years as an EPA enforcement officer before becoming an ecologist and environmental attorney.

Pilot studies in the U.S. and abroad are now confirming those doubts.

Last year, the AP reported that trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies. Including recent findings in Dallas, Cleveland and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties, pharmaceuticals have been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans.

Most cities and water providers still do not test. Some scientists say that wherever researchers look, they will find pharma-tainted water.

Consumers are considered the biggest contributors to the contamination. We consume drugs, then excrete what our bodies don't absorb. Other times, we flush unused drugs down toilets. The AP also found that an estimated 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals and contaminated packaging are thrown away each year by hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Researchers have found that even extremely diluted concentrations of drugs harm fish, frogs and other aquatic species. Also, researchers report that human cells fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs. Some scientists say they are increasingly concerned that the consumption of combinations of many drugs, even in small amounts, could harm humans over decades.

Utilities say the water is safe. Scientists, doctors and the EPA say there are no confirmed human risks associated with consuming minute concentrations of drugs. But those experts also agree that dangers cannot be ruled out, especially given the emerging research.

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Two common industrial chemicals that are also pharmaceuticals — the antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide — account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified as coming from drugmakers and other manufacturers. Both can be toxic and both are considered to be ubiquitous in the environment.

However, the list of 22 includes other troubling releases of chemicals that can be used to make drugs and other products: 8 million pounds of the skin bleaching cream hydroquinone, 3 million pounds of nicotine compounds that can be used in quit-smoking patches, 10,000 pounds of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride. Others include treatments for head lice and worms.

Residues are often released into the environment when manufacturing equipment is cleaned.

A small fraction of pharmaceuticals also leach out of landfills where they are dumped. Pharmaceuticals released onto land include the chemo agent fluorouracil, the epilepsy medicine phenytoin and the sedative pentobarbital sodium. The overall amount may be considerable, given the volume of what has been buried — 572 million pounds of the 22 monitored drugs since 1988.

In one case, government data shows that in Columbus, Ohio, pharmaceutical maker Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. discharged an estimated 2,285 pounds of lithium carbonate — which is considered slightly toxic to aquatic invertebrates and freshwater fish — to a local wastewater treatment plant between 1995 and 2006. Company spokeswoman Marybeth C. McGuire said the pharmaceutical plant, which uses lithium to make drugs for bipolar disorder, has violated no laws or regulations. McGuire said all the lithium discharged, an annual average of 190 pounds, was lost when residues stuck to mixing equipment were washed down the drain.

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Pharmaceutical company officials point out that active ingredients represent profits, so there's a huge incentive not to let any escape. They also say extremely strict manufacturing regulations — albeit aimed at other chemicals — help prevent leakage, and that whatever traces may get away are handled by onsite wastewater treatment.

"Manufacturers have to be in compliance with all relevant environmental laws," said Alan Goldhammer, a scientist and vice president at the industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Goldhammer conceded some drug residues could be released in wastewater, but stressed "it would not cause any environmental issues because it was not a toxic substance at the level that it was being released at."

Several big drugmakers were asked this simple question: Have you tested wastewater from your plants to find out whether any active pharmaceuticals are escaping, and if so what have you found?

No drugmaker answered directly.

"Based on research that we have reviewed from the past 20 years, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are not a significant source of pharmaceuticals that contribute to environmental risk," GlaxoSmithKline said in a statement.

AstraZeneca spokeswoman Kate Klemas said the company's manufacturing processes "are designed to avoid, or otherwise minimize the loss of product to the environment" and thus "ensure that any residual losses of pharmaceuticals to the environment that do occur are at levels that would be unlikely to pose a threat to human health or the environment."

One major manufacturer, Pfizer Inc., acknowledged that it tested some of its wastewater — but outside the United States.

The company's director of hazard communication and environmental toxicology, Frank Mastrocco, said Pfizer has sampled effluent from some of its foreign drug factories. Without disclosing details, he said the results left Pfizer "confident that the current controls and processes in place at these facilities are adequately protective of human health and the environment."

It's not just the industry that isn't testing.

FDA spokesman Christopher Kelly noted that his agency is not responsible for what comes out on the waste end of drug factories. At the EPA, acting assistant administrator for water Mike Shapiro — whose agency's Web site says pharmaceutical releases from manufacturing are "well defined and controlled" — did not mention factories as a source of pharmaceutical pollution when asked by the AP how drugs get into drinking water.

"Pharmaceuticals get into water in many ways," he said in a written statement. "It's commonly believed the majority come from human and animal excretion. A portion also comes from flushing unused drugs down the toilet or drain; a practice EPA generally discourages."

His position echoes that of a line of federal drug and water regulators as well as drugmakers, who concluded in the 1990s — before highly sensitive tests now used had been developed — that manufacturing is not a meaningful source of pharmaceuticals in the environment.

Pharmaceutical makers typically are excused from having to submit an environmental review for new products, and the FDA has never rejected a drug application based on potential environmental impact. Also at play are pressures not to delay potentially lifesaving drugs. What's more, because the EPA hasn't concluded at what level, if any, pharmaceuticals are bad for the environment or harmful to people, drugmakers almost never have to report the release of pharmaceuticals they produce.

"The government could get a national snapshot of the water if they chose to," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, "and it seems logical that we would want to find out what's coming out of these plants."

Ajit Ghorpade, an environmental engineer who worked for several major pharmaceutical companies before his current job helping run a wastewater treatment plant, said drugmakers have no impetus to take measurements that the government doesn't require.

"Obviously nobody wants to spend the time or their dime to prove this," he said. "It's like asking me why I don't drive a hybrid car? Why should I? It's not required."

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After contacting the nation's leading drugmakers and filing public records requests, the AP found two federal agencies that have tested.

Both the EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey have studies under way comparing sewage at treatment plants that receive wastewater from drugmaking factories against sewage at treatment plants that do not.

Preliminary USGS results, slated for publication later this year, show that treated wastewater from sewage plants serving drug factories had significantly more medicine residues. Data from the EPA study show a disproportionate concentration in wastewater of an antibiotic that a major Michigan factory was producing at the time the samples were taken.

Meanwhile, other researchers recorded concentrations of codeine in the southern reaches of the Delaware River that were at least 10 times higher than the rest of the river.

The scientists from the Delaware River Basin Commission won't have to look far when they try to track down potential sources later this year. One mile from the sampling site, just off shore of Pennsville, N.J., there's a pipe that spits out treated wastewater from a municipal plant. The plant accepts sewage from a pharmaceutical factory owned by Siegfried Ltd. The factory makes codeine.

"We have implemented programs to not only reduce the volume of waste materials generated but to minimize the amount of pharmaceutical ingredients in the water," said Siegfried spokeswoman Rita van Eck.

Another codeine plant, run by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Noramco Inc., is about seven miles away. A Noramco spokesman acknowledged that the Wilmington, Del., factory had voluntarily tested its wastewater and found codeine in trace concentrations thousands of times greater than what was found in the Delaware River. "The amounts of codeine we measured in the wastewater, prior to releasing it to the City of Wilmington, are not considered to be hazardous to the environment," said a company spokesman.

In another instance, equipment-cleaning water sent down the drain of an Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. factory in Denver consistently contains traces of warfarin, a blood thinner, according to results obtained under a public records act request. Officials at the company and the Denver Metro Wastewater Reclamation District said they believe the concentrations are safe.

Warfarin, which also is a common rat poison and pesticide, is so effective at inhibiting growth of aquatic plants and animals it's actually deliberately introduced to clean plants and tiny aquatic animals from ballast water of ships.

"With regard to wastewater management we are subject to a variety of federal, state and local regulation and oversight," said Joel Green, Upsher-Smith's vice president and general counsel. "And we work hard to maintain systems to promote compliance."

Baylor University professor Bryan Brooks, who has published more than a dozen studies related to pharmaceuticals in the environment, said assurances that drugmakers run clean shops are not enough.

"I have no reason to believe them or not believe them," he said. "We don't have peer-reviewed studies to support or not support their claims."

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Associated Press Writer Don Mitchell in Denver contributed to this report.

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The AP National Investigative Team can be reached at investigate (at) ap.org

I Have Been Holding Out On You

Dear Friends,

I recently talked with someone who found out what we are
up to and he was really upset that I hadn't shared this with
him sooner.

Well, I figure now is great time to let you know what my
wife have been up to for the last year other then just
having our first beautiful baby boy.

Monika (my lovely wife) and I had been talking about
a business we could do together for some time and
then we stumbled on something amazing.

A very good friend of ours Dr. Charles Richard starting
talking about this amazing new water he had discovered
and just couldn't stop talking about it.

I was never a big water drinker so I didn't pay much
attention to him.

Somehow Charles was able to make a real impression
on Monika and she really wanted to explore the water
for both it's health benefits and also as a possible
business.

OK, now I enter the picture with concerns that my wife
is going to get into some kind of scam, even though I
completely trusted our friend Charles I was still very
skeptical.

So, I started doing all kinds of research to debunk the
water.

What I discovered was eye opening and life changing.

So here is what we've been up to.

We started by drinking alkaline water and then sharing
it with friends.

Then we started to educate people about some very
simple concepts about health and the importance of
proper hydration, pH balance, and redox.

The results have been unbelievable.

What we have learned is that lifestyle related diseases
such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heart
disease, and various types of cancers are directly linked
to your diet.

If you eat a proper diet and drink alkaline water it will
prevent you from being constipated and developing
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• pH Miracle and Weight Loss
• pH Miracle and Diabetes
• The Facts About Drinking Bottled Water
• Pharmaceuticals Found In Our Tap Water
• Water The Chemistry Of Life

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Friday, March 27, 2009

IonWays Alkaline Water Is Essential To Health - Part 1



Alkaline Water helps to naturally flush toxins and acidic waste from the body and is a powerful antioxidant. Ionized Micro-clusterd water makes more oxygen available to our cells than distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered only, bottled or tap water. The advantage of drinking alkaline water is that while being absorbed by the body, it helps neutralize acidic wastes, making them more soluble in the blood vessels. Thus, acidic wastes will be easily drained out of the body in the form of urine or sweat. Cancer and other diseases won't thrive in an oxygenated, alkaline body.

IonWays Alkaline Water Is Essential To Health - Part 2

Alkaline Water Improves The Life Of One Man Who Suffered From Diabetes, Gout and Hypertension



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Doctor follow up April 21st, 2009
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I want you all to know that yesterday, Steven Dailey, went to his physician for his regular tests for Diabetes, which he has had for about 15 years.     In front of me on the desk, is the Patient Chart Report which says, in writing, "Non-Diabetic", as of April 21, 2009.    I can give you a copy upon request.   Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner to put it on the e-mail, but I will get copies.  

During the past 6 months since I met Steven, the only change to his routine was the addition of Alkaline Ionized Micro-crystaline water from an Ionways Athena machine.  

I challenge all of you who have not come to the water,   Drink this Water... 1/2 gallon or more a day, Free for a week to 10 days.   See for yourself  if it doesn't change your life!    

This water changes everything!

To your health, 

RosLynn

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid'


Electrolyzed water cleans, degreases -- and treats athlete's foot. The solution is replacing toxic chemicals.

By Marla Dickerson
February 23, 2009

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.

Sounds like the old "Saturday Night Live" gag for Shimmer, the faux floor polish plugged by Gilda Radner. But the elixir is real. It has been approved by U.S. regulators. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans use at home and on the job. Read entire article.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Why I Don't Sell Lotions, Potions...

...Powders, Pills, Vitamins, Minerals,
Herbs, Nutraceuticals, Juices and other
"So-called" MLM Consumable Products
....by Rich Cox, 37 year MLM Professional

About once per week I get a call from a well meaning MLM "pitchmeister" touting the latest and greatest new product and company that is going to become the hottest thing ever to hit the MLM industry. Invariably this call touts a product that will do everything but grow hair on a billiard ball! Being personally follicley challenged (bald) I have been awaiting, to no avail, for just such a product for over 30 years... and I'm STILL waiting! Of course the dream product is one that you and your MLM company have that absolutely no other company has to offer the world. It is globally patented and backed by a multi-billionaire owner. So, what's the big deal?    Just find one of these "dream companies with the dream consumable product" that everyone needs and can't live without... and everyone gets rich! I've never personally found such dream company or product but let me tell you what I HAVE found.

For the past 37 years I have worked with a handful of companies and have built, with the help of some tremendously talented people, some very large business organizations. Three of these companies are still in business. For a variety of reasons I no longer market these company's products. One of the downlines of which I was one of the "sparks" to get started developed into over 1,000,000 distributors and has created multiple billions in sales over the past 18 years. Another downline which I began in 1994 developed into nearly 500,000 associates which have sold or consumed
nearly one billion dollars of products over past 15 years. Approximately one in five of all its sales force and 20% of its annual volume, which today is nearly 400 million, grew out of the 28 people which I originally sponsored. Within the past 4 and 1/2 years I was a partner and business consultant involved with another marketing company that over the past 9 years has sold hundreds of millions in health related consumable products.  Two years ago I walked away from this latest highly touted company and
products to sell a small line of non-consumable products. I'd like to offer you some of the reasons why.

First of all I'd like to share some of the little discussed realities of working with and building networks to sell the kinds of consumable lines of products mentioned in my header.

1. Virtually every product in the marketplace offered by MLM companies is not completely proprietary, although in a few cases there may be some patents attached to them. Most can be easily "knocked off" by someone selling a product that is nearly as good or can accomplish the same thing as the one you are offering. This happens almost every day in the real world of marketing. If your product is REALLY "hot" it gets duplicated, usually by someone selling it cheaper than the one you're selling. Just look in almost any health food store and see what they have compared to your 
company's products.

2. The typical MLM consumable product sells for $25 to $50 per bottle, jar, package, etc. Most companies require a minimum monthly order to stay "qualified" to receive commissions and bonuses. Generally this amounts to about 100 in BV or PV that may cost you MORE than $100 to stay "qualified." Keeping people (customers OR associates) ordering these products on a consistent basis month after month is nearly impossible. The "half life" of most consumers is less than 3 months... associates and distributors 6 months. You've got to keep recruiting faster than people can quit...
something few people can successfully do.

3. Most of these companies which sell the type of products described  above are basically "wholesale buying clubs" with little to no emphasis on RETAIL sales. Because the wholesale/retail price differential is generally about 25-30% and, given the fact that most MLM products are perceived to be "overpriced" to begin with, most distributors sign up their customers as wholesale product users. Show me one national or international sales and marketing company where their sales reps can stay in business selling 98% + of its products WHOLESALE that can can stay in business?
Generally these companies and their sales reps go broke! 90% + of all network marketing (MLM) companies and their rank and file distributors go broke or out of business within the first 12-18 months! It is a nonsustainable business model in a high percentage of cases.

4. Since most products are priced with such a low wholesale/retail price differential the typical earnings per retail customer is minimal...$5 to 10 per item. And since most customers sign up to purchase "wholesale" the profitability per item is far less, generally in the neighborhood of 7-10% on all personally sponsored and "downline" sales. Since the average distributor enrolls 1.8 people you've got to have multiple hundreds or thousands of customers/and or associates to earn any significant money.
Of course we've all heard the "Just get 5 who get 5 who get 5 and you could get rich!" Since there are only one in thousands who can do this over any sustained period of time (by personal observation and downline analysis), you're lucky to receive a check for $30-50 per month.

5. What one continues to see held up are the "poster children" who are the "exceptions" that defied all odds and became big winners in one of the above-described scenarios. The "average" distributor in one of these downlines almost invariably gives up the dream of making lots of money OR goes into a fallback position of consuming your product until something "hotter" comes along.

6. Since only about 2% of the North American population does or has done any kind of MLM program the so-called "heavy hitters" are almost always recycled from other programs which went stale and they now  become "pitchmeisters" for the latest greatest "be all end all" deals. They manage to get some of their followers to join them and the process repeats itself over and over again.

So where does all this leave me? Well, I'm currently happily involved with a company out of Reno, Nevada called Ionways,LLC. They market a line of patented and proprietary water machines called "ionizers." The parent manufacturing company (EmcoTech) is the largest and arguably the best manufacturer of this kind of equipment anywhere to be found in the world. Although there are a number of "assemblers" of this type of equipment, there are few actual manufacturers, especially with the research and development capabilities of EmcoTech. They are a 25+year old company with estimated monthly sales of around 50,000 units. All but a few
thousand  of these units produced monthly are sold to Asian markets. An estimated one in five Japanese households have such a unit. One in eight Korean households are estimated to own one of these kinds of water units.

Ionways water ionizers sell from $1,395 to 2,645. Our flagship product, our over-the-counter Athena, comprises the bulk of our ionizer sales. This unit sells for $2,095 and I believe is the best ionizer on the market today, dollar for dollar and ounce for ounce of water produced. There are machines that sell for $500 to $5,000 or more that cannot come close to producing the quality of water for the guaranteed 5 year warranty period and/or the estimated life expectancy of the unit (10-20 years). I will gladly
provide another document produced by good friend and Ionways Executive, Patricia Peak, that goes into a line for line comparison between Ionways ionizer equipment and the other units in the market place.

So I'd like to add just a few last words on perhaps THE most important part of this article... what makes selling Ionways water ionizers better than the so-called "consumable health and personal care product lines" mentioned above? Let me list just a few.

1. It's EASY to get into a conversation with people about water! Everyone seems to be buzzing about water in some form or fashion. Just check the newspaper and almost every week there is some kind of article on water! 

2. Bottled water is a 15 BILLION dollar annual business and growing. Tap waters are known for their chemical pollutants even containing prescription drugs that find their way into people's homes through their water supply! Distilled and reverse osmosis filtered water are "acidic" and lead to more health challenges in many cases than they help prevent! The same "acidic" properties are found in most bottled waters... check them out! I HAVE! Oh yes... Bottled waters cost more than gasoline when compared
gallon for gallon... one I tested cost more than $15 per gallon!!

3. Ionways water ionizers produce what I call the "Healthiest Water in the World" or as another has dubbed it, "Nature's Best Water," for pennies per gallon over the lifetime of the unit. It is the best tasting water I've ever drank too! Sweet and incredibly hydrating!

4. To earn money one can enroll in Ionways for $79 plus shipping costs of about $7 which give you a media kit and access to a replicated website to which you can refer retail customers and potential distributors.

5. On each Athena sale you can earn $200 to $350 ($700 per machine if you are pro-pack qualified ... a relatively easy thing to do). Selling one ionizer is virtually as easy as selling a $50 bottle of pills... and a WHOLE LOT MORE PROFITABLE!

6. Commissions and bonuses totaling approximately $1,000 per machine are paid out to the selling Associate and the upline on each and every machine.

7. Ionways is the most lucrative direct sales/MLM program I have ever been involved with. It doesn't take hundreds or thousands of downline distributors or associates to earn significant monthly income. Sell one unit and you can earn more than most people do in an entire YEAR of selling lotions, potions, powders and pills, etc.

8. No one has to purchase a unit to participate in Ionways, the most lucrative of all selling opportunities with which I've ever been involved! I have one Associate who earned nearly $5,000 who didn't own a machine but went to work telling everyone he knew about this amazing equipment! (He now owns one our machines!).

9. Ionways alkaline ionized water equipment has been THE most important health discovery of my lifetime! The water has totally changed my life in EVERY aspect. I was dying of congestive heart failure and in and out of ER more times than I could count. Today my health is better than it has been in years and I can't thank Ionways or the people who introduced me to this technology enough for all it has meant to me.

In closing I would like the opportunity to speak with each and every person possible about this most amazing equipment and opportunity.

For more information please contact Greg Clowminzer at 760-930-9604. Please take the time to check out this water ionizer equipment. It could save your life and those you love and cherish most.

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